The good mixer: West Is Best cocktail recipe

Photograph: Dan Matthews for the Guardian

This is a kind of Somerset sling. For the syrup, dissolve white caster sugar in an equal quantity of water.

Per serving:
35ml Somerset cider brandy (that’s code for Julian Temperley’s creations, by the way)
25ml fresh lemon juice
20ml sugar syrup
50ml apple juice
60ml Somerset dry cider
3 apple slices, to garnish

Put all the ingredients bar the apple in a cocktail shaker, add cubed ice and shake as hard as you can for a good 10 seconds. Strain into a highball glass, garnish and drink.

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